Catch-Up October

After an extremely busy August and September, we had time to catch our breath, take a few naps, and do some sightseeing in October! We stayed at some beautiful campgrounds in Tennessee, South Carolina and Florida. We visited the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama – something that’s been on our to-do list for quite some time.

Our last night on the road was spent at the gorgeous Anastasia Island State Park in Florida. Keep reading this newsletter and you’ll see some pretty nice pictures! Oh … and you can click on the map to see the full web page of our travel map. Then you can click on any of the little green tents to open up a dialog box that includes links to our personal blog about those places.

New Seminars

We are constantly learning new things, so we add new seminars. Al three of these new titles will be offered at the Good Sam rally in Daytona and, of course at our own TechnoGeek Rally on Dec 2-8.

Geeks on Tour: Using Technology to Plan, Preserve and Share Your Travels
If you can only fit one of our seminars into your rally schedule, we wanted you to have an overview. This seminar touches on all the devices, software and apps we use and how our videos can teach you more.

Trip Planning with MS Streets and Trips, Google Maps and Websites
We used to cover Trip Planning and GPS Navigation in one seminar and it was too much, they are really two separate topics.

Picasa: Organizing your Pictures – a Seminar for Intermediate Users
Picasa can do so much with your pictures, it does you no good if you don’t know where your pictures are! This seminar teaches you tools and techniques for organizing, moving, locating, and generally managing your photo library using Picasa.

Forum Topics

The Q&A Forums on the Geeks on Tour website are a great place to discuss the topics we cover. This is where we answer our members’ questions. Anyone can read the forums, you need to be a member to post. Here are some topics of interest:

TechnoGeek Learning Rally

Yes! We’re doing it again. Phil and Tracey from TechnoRV and Jim and Chris from Geeks on Tour are teaming up to deliver the most learning, the best food, and the most fun of any RV rally you can imagine. Watch the video of the first TechnoGeek Learning Rally to see what I mean!

You will learn about cameras, computers, smartphones and more at this week-long event in Bushnell, Florida December 2-8. See the Rally Page for all the details.

The rally registration fee includes 9 meals! All homemade by Tracey and Phil – feast your eyes on this menu for the week. We are limiting registrations to 35 RVs – Register Today!

“Going There?” or “Being There?”

Which do you like best about traveling? The journey or the destination? Read Chuck Woodbury’s thoughts on the subject and get a little insight why we think that RVing gives you the best of both!

Our Take on Windows 8

You’ll be hearing a lot about Windows 8 since it was launched on October 25. We don’t want to deluge you with even more, but thought you might want our take on the topic. When someone asks us “What do you think of Windows 8, should I get it?” We have 4 points we think you should know:

Pictures of Anastasia Island State Park in Florida

It’s places like this that give me joy in using my good digital SLR camera, and then viewing and editing the pictures later in Picasa. The picture of the two of us is of particular interest since we were all alone on this beach, and we didn’t have a tripod. How did we get that picture? The answer is at the bottom of this post. Anastasia Island is a Florida State park on the beach at St. Augustine. We only stayed there one night, but we made our way to the beach at those all-important photography times of sunset and sunrise. I can’t stop looking at these pictures and just feeling love for the world of beauty that we live in. I took over 250 pictures! With help from Picasa’s Side-by-Side editing feature, I chose the 49 best and then edited them so they look even better.

Google Maps from the Web to Your Smartphone

Use your computer to mark places using Google Maps, and you’ll see them on your smartphone! I love this feature of Google Maps – this is the appeal of ‘cloud computing.’ Use whatever device is most practical and see the results on any other device.

Let’s say I’m researching where to stay as we travel from Fort Lauderdale to Bowling Green, Kentucky. I will use lots of different resources to do this: Streets and Trips with the POI Megafile is my first choice, then I’ll supplement that with websites for RV Park Reviews, Georgia State Parks, Passport America etc. Google Maps may or may not be part of the tools we use to find places to stay, but it’s definitely a good idea to mark the places once we’ve made our decisions.

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